Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in Washington last week, after a trip around the world, was a group of Army Air Forces brass hats, mightily impressed with U.S. flyers overseas. Said one major general (aged 39) : "No matter how we foul things up in Washington these youngsters are going...
Cronin's men quietly invaded International House. If the girl had met with foul play, they reasoned, she might never have left the building. They drained two 9,000-gallon water tanks on the roof, another 5,000-gallon tank in a 13th-floor engine room. They shoveled and sifted their way through 150 tons of pea coal in basement bins. They searched the building's 550 rooms, foot by foot. They found no trace of her: Where had Valsa been going, in the snow, before dawn? She had only an amateur interest in Indian political affairs...
...Even when referred to with admiration, the infantry are almost always called foul names. The British designation for the doughboy: P.B.I. (poor bloody infantry). *Flying pay in the Air Forces is given for flying, not for combat, and is a hangover from peacetime, when it was given for the extra hazards involved...
Subarctic Series. Brooklyn's left field had nothing on the W.S.L. for enthusiasm. Shouting sailors crowded the foul lines, jeering at umpiring officers. Some afternoons, $500 changed hands-a quarter of all the money in the fleet. The outstanding star was Seaman 1st Class Joe Sienko, a husky twirler who learned baseball in a Catholic Youth league in Massachusetts. Behind his pitching on the Fourth of July, the Navy All-Stars walked away with the W.S.L. World Series, whipping a picked Merchant Marine nine...
...Japanese soldier's usefulness to the Emperor is not ended when he is killed. According to the nationalistic Nipponese religious teachings, soldiers slain in battle become minor deities and go right on fighting the enemy in gremlinesque fashion. They foul up his radio equipment, make his detachments fire at each other, worry and scare his troops to the point of suicide...